Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gamble and should be made to stick to his bargain." Judge Grover M. Moscowitz continued the case. At a Louisiana fair, when Huey Pierce Long, introduced as "the greatest statesman in the U. S.," denounced the Recovery program, one Sammy Klotz of Napoleonville yelled: "What about that Long Island affair?" [TIME, Sept. n]. Surrounded by state police and his bodyguard. Senator Long yelled back: "Come down here and I'll Long Island you. I won't have five or six men jump on you the way they did on me and then...
...Cleves, marries her after the divorce. These are Henry's gayest days. "Life has found its meaning," he tells his court one night on his way to the Queen's room after a day of hunting. When it becomes apparent that the meaning is a love affair between Catherine and young Culpepper, there is only one thing for the king...
Historians rarely reconstruct a world convincingly: their models may be correct to the last detail but the clockwork that runs them is modern. Really moving pictures of the past are made not by scholarship but by imagination. Authoress Waddell has resurrected the famed love-affair of Heloise and Abelard not simply by the dusting and patching of documents but by putting together many a vanished two and two. The result, as any reader may verify without benefit of historical knowledge. seems historically true. And though its horizon is ringed with the theological thunder of that far-off day, its medieval...
Dinny Charwell is keeping a stiff upper lip over her late disastrous love-affair with her Byronic poet (Galsworthy enthusiasts will remember with a shudder that he was also an apostate). This time it is her sister Clare who is in a mess. After 18 months of married life she has come back from Ceylon with the news that her able husband is a sadist. On the boat home young Tony Croom has fallen in love with her. Clare's husband follows her to England, tries to make her come back with him, and when he fails, warns...
...Flush naturally went along. He enjoyed Italy as much as they did. In a land where nobody thought of kidnapping dogs, with a mistress who had ceased to be an invalid in becoming a wife, Flush led an unrestrained and roving life, made up for many a lost love-affair. With the Brownings he visited England and Wimpole Street once again, but he was glad to get back to Italy, to spend his old age in the southern sun and to die in peace by his beloved mistress's side...